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Boosting automatic lexical acquisition with morphological information

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ULA '02: Proceedings of the ACL-02 workshop on Unsupervised lexical acquisition - Volume 9

Pages 17 - 25

https://doi.org/10.3115/1118627.1118630

Published: 12 July 2002 Publication History

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In this paper we investigate the impact of morphological features on the task of automatically extending a dictionary. We approach the problem as a pattern classification task and compare the performance of several models in classifying nouns that are unknown to a broad coverage dictionary. We used a boosting classifier to compare the performance of models that use different sets of features. We show how adding simple morphological features to a model greatly improves the classification performance.

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Kwong OTsou BScott DUszkoreit H(2008)Extending a thesaurus with words from Pan-Chinese sourcesProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 110.5555/1599081.1599139(457-464)Online publication date: 18-Aug-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1599081.1599139
Curran JKnight K(2005)Supersense tagging of unknown nouns using semantic similarityProceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics10.3115/1219840.1219844(26-33)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2005
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Pekar VZock MDizier P(2004)Linguistic preprocessing for distributional classification of wordsProceedings of the Workshop on Enhancing and Using Electronic Dictionaries10.5555/1610042.1610046(15-21)Online publication date: 29-Aug-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1610042.1610046
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